ninety-fifth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-fourth; being the ordinal number for 95.
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being one of 95 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-fifth part, especially of one (1/95).
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the ninety-fifth member of a series.
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So if you wanted to go to the ninety- fifth floor, you’d just press the 95 button and the ninety-fifth floor would come to you.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
He tells Alex that he is in the ninety-fifth percentile in height.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
It was Beverly who asked innocently: “Excuse me, Miss Baylis, but did you tell us to begin our literature papers at the ninety-fifth line of Pope’s Essay on Man: ‘Hope springs eternal’?”
From A Dixie School Girl by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
In the 'Exhortation' which Cornaro added at a much later time, in his ninety-fifth year, he reckons it among the elements of his happiness that his 'Treatise' had made many converts.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Furious with long restrained passion, the guards rushed upon the leading divisions; the seventy-first, and ninety-fifth, and twenty-sixth overlapped them on the flanks.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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